Purim: A History of Hashgacha

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The opening of this shiur, in Torah Today’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

imposes taxes on his people next all the story The greatness of that he was appointed and promoted by the king they're written in the history books of Persia and media and then the the Milla concludes with p giml now the first Al of per the anti penultimate P of the Milla the third from last P of M is very strange why is it relevant that imposes taxes on his people why does the Milla feel it necessary to tell us that and next question the next which talks about the the mod what is that about why are we told that uh there are Chronicles recording that uh there are Chronicles recording the history of these events um why are these relevant has anyone studed them what is that all about so in answer to that second question di bramski used to say that millas Esa is written for pumin and to teach us and how runs the world the Milla is telling us in this penultimate POS of the Milla that if you want to study the history books the actual factual details history books the actual factual details let's say of the purm story then you're welcome to do so but for that you need to go to the history books of Persia and midia that's not what millus is about is about and and teaching us and therefore we see that throughout the whole story of the Milla and we need to read the Milla with that in mind not as a history book but as a means to teach and that is very much the way the whole pem story works and we'll come

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1. 0:35imposes taxes on his people next all the story The greatness of that he was appointed…
2. 3:10about then it could refer to it could refer to King you see that who's not…
3. 6:21moment he's coming to tell about this plan that they're going to hang M interestingly the…
4. 9:30people because of his his his uh fear of bringing the the leader who was going…
5. 12:10for and that was ultimately the Catalyst of the downfall of the example we just said…
6. 15:17says then the work of the house of God which was in Jerusalem was stopped and…
7. 18:25says we've now answered our first question do you know why that first POS in par…
8. 20:56uses the enemies of the Jewish people to be the vehicle to operate his and ultimately…
9. 24:02do you know what you said yesterday what did I say what do you mean what…
10. 27:05fitting postcript to that the P of the M says that is not a history book…

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